Advertising device



No. 622,416.- Patented Apr. 4, I899.

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ADVERTISING DEVICE.

(Application filed July 19, 1897.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDGAR oHERRY, or SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,416, dated April 4,1899.

Application filed July 19, 1897. Serial No. 645,145. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDGAR CHERRY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Santa Rosa, in the county of Sonoma and State of California,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in AdvertisingDevices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of said invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it most nearly appertains to make, use, and practicethe same.

This invention relates to improvements in advertising devices; and itconsists in the novel construction and arrangement of the parts, ashereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the invention. Fig. 2is an end View of the same, showing the operating mechanism. Fig. 3 isan end view showing one of the panels in the operation of shifting.

The object which this invention has in view is to provide a simple andattractive means for exposing a succession of business or other cards toview at regular intervals. This object is accomplished by theapplication of an automatic operating mechanism to the tumbling-panelknown as J acobs ladder, and because of its well-known construction nothere described in detail.

The display-surface consists of a number of panels so connected togetherthat a halfturn of the end panel, or the one designated in the drawingsas No. 1, will lift No. 2 to a position directly behind N0. 1, when bythe action of gravity and the peculiar hinging of the panels 2 will fallto a position behind 3,

3 will fall out over4, 4 behind 5, and so on through the length, whichmay comprise any number of panels. In the next action No. 1 will resumeits former position, drawing2 up in front of it, repeating the formeraction, but exposing the reverse side of each panel, which has shown inthe rear of the device in an inverted position.

An operating mechanism for the above action is shown in Fig. 2 of thedrawings, and consists of the sheave A, around which the belt Bis givenone or more turns, having the buckets O and O on each end, the standpipeD, having the cooks D and D thereon, the drain-pipes E E and hoppers Eand E to carry away the waste water from the buckets O and C releasedtherefrom through the valves 0 in the bottoms of each, the whole devicebeing supported between the upright standards F F.

To start the device, the buckets should be in the position as shown,(see Fig. 2,) or vice versa. It is evident when bucket 0 containssufficient water to overcome the weight of the panels it will descend,the flow through the cock D being shut off by the weighted lever D asthe trip D on the bail of the bucket descends from under it. As thebucket sinks onto the hopper E the stem F. of the valve 0 impinges onthe bracket E lifting the valve 0 from its seat and permitting the waterto flow from the bucket and off through the drain-pipe, the operationbeing repeated on the other side when thebucket O has filledsufficiently, the trip D lifting the weighted lever D of the cock D asthe bucket ascends, permitting the water to flow into it, this givingthe necessary half-turn and return to the position of the panel 1.

It is evident the above mechanism may be operated with sand or otherrunning sub stance instead of water.

Some of the advantages of my invention over devices for a similarpurpose are that I am enabled to utilize both sides of my cards and toexpose half of the whole number at a time, and, further, an increase inthe number of panels will not increase the interval between exposures ofany given card. This is not true of any device known to me.

Having thus described this invention, what I claim is A device of thenature indicated, comprising a standard, a shaft journaled thereon, anadvertising-panel of the nature of a J acobs ladder suspended from saidshaft, a belt about the shaft near the standard, a standpipe below theshaft and the portion of the belt upon the same, said pipe beingincluded in the vertical plane between the belt ends lateral cocks insaid stand-pipe, buckets on the ends of the belt,means for operating thecooks by the movement of the buckets, dischargedrain-pipe, and means foroperating the disvaives in said buckets, a drain-pipe at onecharge-Valves; substantially as described. 10

side of the stand-pipe in the path of the dis- In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto set charge-opening of a bucket, a second drainmy hand this2d day of July, 1897.

5 pipe on the opposite side of the stand-pipe EDGAR CHERRY.

and in the path of the discharge-opening of Vitnesses: the secondbucket, said second drain-pipe BALDWIN VALE,

communicating with the first mentioned MAYNARD IIARMS.

